Awatchfire

Grant County, Oregon

Olive Butte Fire

Burning 3.3 miles north-east of Greenhorn and 4.8 miles south of Granite, since Wednesday 8 July.

Map of Oregon. The Olive Butte Fire burns 31 miles from Baker City and 149 miles from Bend, and 224 miles from the state capital, Salem.
The fire sits 31 miles from Baker City and 149 miles from Bend.

3,092

acres burned so far — about 5 square miles

99

days burning so far

100%

of the perimeter held

The official record as of 9:09am today

The Olive Butte Fire is on the interagency wildfire record at 3,092 acres in Grant County, Oregon. The figures below are the official record. A satellite heat map and day-by-day history appear here as soon as detections are attributed to this fire.

100% held

100% of the perimeter is being reported as held.

Natural

is the cause on the official record.

99 days

on record — first written down on Wednesday 8 July at 8:39am local time, starting at 0 acres.

Type 5 Incident

is the incident-management level assigned to it.

44.745, -118.453lat, lon

is the official point of origin on the interagency record.

Conditions measured 16.4 miles from the fire: 61°F, air at 41% humidity, a 3 mph wind out of the east.

Six other fires are burning inside the same view. Buck Gulch Fire started 236 minutes after this one, 2.0 miles west, and has reached 0 acres. Salmon Fire started 504 minutes before this one, 3.4 miles south-west, and has reached 1,433 acres with 11 people assigned. Gimlet Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 8.3 miles east, and has reached 1 acres. McCulley Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 10.2 miles north-east, and has reached 1,202 acres with 92 people assigned. McCully Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 10.2 miles north-east, and has reached 13,604 acres with 84 people assigned. North Pole Fire started on Saturday 22 August, 14.4 miles north-east, and has reached 310 acres with 81 people assigned. Their heat is counted against them, not against this fire, and the pale rings on the map mark where they are recorded.

Smoke has been recorded lying over this ground once so far. The thickest of it was thin between 1:10pm and 4:30pm local time. The last of those windows closed 233 hours ago, so what is overhead now is not known.

No satellite heat has been attributed to this fire yet — either it is too new for a pass to have caught it, or it is too small to register from orbit. Everything above is from the interagency incident record and updates as that record does.

How the record has moved

Each step is a change on the interagency incident record — acreage, containment or crews — with the date it was reported. No satellite reading is involved.

  1. Wednesday 8 July

    First reported

  2. Sunday 23 August

    3,092 acres on record — 94% contained

    3,092 ac · 94% held
  3. Tuesday 8 September

    Containment 95%

    3,092 ac · 95% held
  4. Tuesday 15 September

    Containment 100%

    3,092 ac · 100% held